What are the displayable attributes for a symbol ?

Hi!

It's all in the documentation: HELP TEXT

Rene

Check Show and Info as well.

The SHOW command is used to show names and other details of elements and objects. Parameters are listed in the status bar. Complete signals and nets can be highlighted with the SHOW command.

The INFO command displays further details about an object's attributes on screen, e.g. wire width, layer number, text size etc.

Hello,

you should have added a note that this is not the complete list.

Rene

Am 14.05.2015 um 12:56 schrieb Clem Martins:

| >NAME | Component name (ev.+gate name) 1) |

| >VALUE | Comp. value/type 1) |

| >PART | Component name 2) |

| >GATE | Gate name 2) |

| >DRAWING_NAME | Drawing name |

| >LAST_DATE_TIME | Time of the last modification |

| >PLOT_DATE_TIME | Time of the plot creation |

| >SHEET | Sheet number of schematic 3) |

 

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??? I thought this was complete. Maybe my list is old now...

Am 14.05.2015 um 15:38 schrieb Clem Martins:

??? I thought this was complete. Maybe my list is old now...

Yes, it clearly depends on the version you're using. I just had a look

at V7.3:

| >NAME Component name (ev.+gate name) 1)

| >VALUE Comp. value/type 1)

| >PART Component name 2)

| >GATE Gate name 2)

| >XREF Part cross-reference 2)

| >CONTACT_XREF Contact cross-reference 2)

| >ASSEMBLY_VARIANT Name of the current assembly variant

| >DRAWING_NAME Drawing name

| >LAST_DATE_TIME Time of the last modification

| >PLOT_DATE_TIME Time of the plot creation

| >SHEETNR Sheet number of a schematic 3)

| >SHEETS Total number of sheets of a schematic 3)

| >SHEET equivalent to ">SHEETNR/>SHEETS" 3)

| >MODULE Module name (available in module sheets, otherwise empty) 3)

| >SHEETNR_TOTAL Sheet number of a schematic with modules 3)

| >SHEETS_TOTAL Total number of sheets of a schematic with modules 3)

| >SHEET_TOTAL equivalent to ">SHEETNR_TOTAL/>SHEETS_TOTAL" 3)

1) Only for package or symbol

2) Only for symbol

3) Only for symbol or schematic

But as long as we do not know the version Jacques is using, HELP TEXT is

the only way to find out what placeholders belong to him.

Rene

hi,

You can also display your own personal attribute. If you define a attribute named 'ABC' in your device, then the text '>ABC' in your symbol (also work for your package) will display the value of the ABC attribute, even if the value is set in the schematic. You can have different display option see 'help text':

If a symbol or package drawing shall display an attribute of the actual part or element, a text with the name of that attribute, marked with the '>' character, can be used. By default, only the actual value of the given attribute will be displayed. If the attribute name is followed by one of the special characters '=', '~' or '!', the actual display is as follows:

 

>ABC		123
>ABC=		ABC = 123
>ABC~		ABC
>ABC!		nothing

Note that for each attribute name there should be only one such text in any given symbol or package! If there is more than one such text in a symbol or package that all reference the same attribute name, only one of them will be displayed when the part using this symbol or package is smashed.

Note that you also can use that with global attributes. For example, I define a global attribute with a PCB reference number named 'GLOB_PCB_REFNUM'. I use some symbols a packages in which I put a '>GLOB_PCB_REFNUM' text. One of them is a package I made to add some text information on all Gerber layer.